Call for section 'terror' @ obn conference
14/11/2001
dear all,
due to the radical changes which have happend since september 11, we, the organizers of the obn-conference decided to dedicate one part of the conference to a section called:
"The borders of 'terror' - media and war techniques"
For this section at the old boys network's conference 'very cyberfeminist international' (December 13-16th) we are looking for speakers addressing one or more of the following questions:
- How to approach the (mass) media presentation of the events since September 11th? Is it a 'propaganda war'?
- Which strategy can be analyzed regarding the career of the word 'terror' in the western mass media ?
- How does the meaning of 'terrorism' shift compared to the related terms of 'armed struggle for liberation' or 'war'?
- Can 'terrorism' mean symbolic acts of purposefully applying violence of any kind or is it reserved to a questionable 'reality' of physical violence?
- Has killing and/or the destruction of material or cultural symbols become a new guarantee of 'reality' of today's western popular metaphysics?
so far, we have invited RAWA - revolutionary association of women from afghanistan - to speak at this section.
please forward this call to anyone who might be competent and interested to come to Hamburg to attend the conference.
Call for contributions- urgent! please send your recommendations and/or proposals to
best,
cornelia
"A smart artist makes the machine do the work"
Cornelia Sollfrank - Rutschbahn 37 - 20146 Hamburg - Germany
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